On This Day: August 15 — Century Dispatch

Cantaloupes Crossing the Pacific: Imperial Valley's Audacious Bet on the Future (Aug 15, 1927)

Imperial Valley press (El Centro, Calif.)

1926: When Poison Booze Killed 37 & A Dummy Almost Broke Out of Sing Sing

Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)

1906: Hawaiian Worker's Salary Seized for 23 Years (Yes, Really)

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

Bryan's Hoarse Voice, a Treasury Department Scandal, and 164 Deaths in One Chicago Day—August 15, 1896

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

August 15, 1886: The Irish Crisis Splits Britain—Plus a King's Son in Paris and Generals Plotting in France

The sun (New York [N.Y.])

1876 Maine: Small-Town Justice, Framed Love, and the Doctor Who Visited Every Other Friday

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

The Philadelphia Convention Implodes Over Vallandigham—and Europe's Empires Are Crumbling

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

Can a Nation Survive Massive Debt? Macaulay's Answer to a War-Torn America (August 1864)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

August 1863: Northern Press Smells Confederate Collapse—But Lee's Still Dangerous

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

An Eyewitness to Slaughter: How 7,000 Union Soldiers Held the Line Against the Odds (August 1862)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

How Lemon Juice Nearly Framed a Man for Murder: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser's Strangest Stories (Aug. 15, 1861)

The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands)

A Bustling Port Before the Storm: What New Orleans's Docks Looked Like in 1856

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

One Penny for Your Thoughts: Inside a Forgotten Washington Newspaper from 1846

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

A Speculator's Fever Dream: How One Maryland Investor Bet $200K on Coal, Timber, and the Railroad Revolution (1836)

Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])